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There's a chance but at this point there aren't a whole load of options with most people being as "dead" as Aijimu. If he loses Iihiko should "win", as it would honestly become ridiculously contrived if again a another person needed to deus ex machina'd. Considering he did "save" Shiranui when the author could have easily made Medaka do it, it doesn't seem like the authors going out of his way to troll him.

This also isn't a straight battle he just needs Shiranui to take back her body he doesn't need to physically beat Iihiko

Actually, I wonder if defeating Iihiko means that on some level you become Iihiko. Hanten'in said something about that.

Yep, that's right. Hanten hinted at that whoever by some miracle defeats Iihiko will become an even more rarer item and for that same reason will be forced to stay in the Shiranui village forever. Hence why it should be only Shiranui who brings him down once and for all.

I don't know if this will the last arc, but man, the climax is just the best, you can feel the atmosphere, the destruction, and the carnage Iihiko laid down. Kumagawa is dead, Tsurubami is dead, Joutou is about to die, Kakegae has received a fatal wound... Even the unbeatable monster, Medaka, died.

Who said anything about Zenkichi winning the physical fight, Zenkichi only has one win condition that is saving Shiranui, he doesn't have to beat Iihiko to do this nor does beating Iihiko neccesarily means he succeeds in doing that anyway, since Iihiko could just die taking Shiranui with him.

Basically Zenkichi success is independent of how the fight goes, it could really go either way.

Hmm.. It's possible my theory of Nienami being Ajimu is correct, though its obviously still nowhere near confirmed. I'm wondering if Nienami has something to do with Zen's missing memories from middle school, considering her words about him needing to remember all .

If it was ending soon it would have been announced already.
It DOES feel like a climax with the entire main cast dead/dying though, that's for sure.

Zenkichi Box, where there is no real main character since Zenkichi doesn't have to defeat the arc villain and is simply a leader of sorts. It always made the most logical sense to me considering this manga's ongoing, Medaka always felt shooed in, in her battles against the arc villain, whereas Medaka box is a personality driven story and would benefit more from a passive MC that doesn't have to win the vast majority of the time and can even have others take the final limelight.

Getting another chance to live, even if just for a short amount of time, by saving his best friend he's also gonna save the world, but right now Zenkichi is only facing off Iihiko because of Shiranui.

Since always I knew he didn't became my favorite character for just one or two traits of him, Zenkichi is the true hero of this history. He always was, but is now, in this moment where the future of the whole world is at stake, when the fruits of everything he has done till now are finally blooming with radiance.

TBF is the missing memories even a real plot point anymore Kumagawa is a "good" guy Aijimu is dead, unless Nisio is going to bring out another character from nowhere to make it revelant again I don't really see what it adds to the story anymore, back when either Aijimu or Kumagawa was a villain it was relevant not really anymore.

If Nisio is ever going to bring back those memories it won't be the part of the trauma but the part when Zenkichi meet Ajimu for the first time.

The question is, how can you bring back something that got wiped out of your mind?

Kumagawa remembers does he not, well at least a lot more than the other two, so it's not really gone at least from a verbal point of view though I'm not really sure they could trust Kumagawa's recollection.

Kumagawa remembers does he not, well at least a lot more than the other two, so it's not really gone at least from a verbal point of view though I'm not really sure they could trust Kumagawa's recollection.

And speaking of, there's a line that the scanlators mistranslated early on in the current arc that suggests Maguro still remembered Ajimu, IIRC.

hmm. I'm still not convinced. All this is probably a setup to Medaka saving Shiranui and defeating Iihiko (99% I'm leaning towards it still).
I know how ridiculous that sounds but thats the way I see it. You'll all get trolled lol

This is harking back to the battle of the bands chapter, so, uh, unless Nisio decides that he's going to be completely awful next week we won't get a sudden Medaka victory.
I mean, she's obviously going to come back through some deus ex or another (because at this point it's very obvious that Zenkichi abandoned Devil Style assuming it existed in the first place) but it'd be damned interesting if she and the rest didn't.

This is harking back to the battle of the bands chapter, so, uh, unless Nisio decides that he's going to be completely awful next week we won't get a sudden Medaka victory.
I mean, she's obviously going to come back through some deus ex or another (because at this point it's very obvious that Zenkichi abandoned Devil Style assuming it existed in the first place) but it'd be damned interesting if she and the rest didn't.

There was also the post-election scenario with Ajimu. From defeat she went to a victory. The situation is completely different and a hopeless one too, but a possibility is still there. And it need not happen next chapter, during the resolution of the Iihiko scenario she could give the final push to save Shiranui, defeat Iihiko. In every arc till now she has had the final say.
But you certainly are right, I am being excessively paranoid and 99% was pretty much an over-exaggeration. However, IMO considering this manga has been till now, a Medaka comeback and victory (with respect to IIhiko and Shiranui) should not be ruled out. Thats setting yourself up to be trolled (whether its awful or not)...